It’s New Year’s Day. The office is closed, you have a hangover, and you must eat. But it’s Tuesday. Thankfully, there are heroic individuals in the service industry who, despite hangovers of their own, will be there to help. Here are 10 solid, (mostly) boozy options this year for a New Year’s Brunch in KC. Tip nicely.↓Our favorite spot to…
New Year’s Eve is a chance for a band to go big and try something more grandly spectacular than most might be willing to go for on a regular old Monday night. Such is the case for Making Movies, KC’s long-running Latinx alternative act. On New Year’s Eve, at the Truman, the quartet will team up with Calvin Arsenia and other…
RecordBartherecordbar.comBloodshot Records’ Murder By Death rings in 2019 with an evening of orchestral saloon-rock. VIP tickets get you upstairs access at the Crossroads venue. The Trumanthetrumankc.comKC favorites Making Movies will perform the Talking Heads classic Remain In Light in its entirety, with support from Calvin Arsenia. The Shiptheshipkc.comA salsa celebration, courtesy of the Afro-Latin dance act Calle Vida. Get your tickets in…
Starting around the age of 15, Jim Oshel began volunteering at events put on by Recycled Sounds, the midtown record shop that operated at the corner of Westport Road and Main Street from 1988 to 2006. He applied for a job with frequency, writing the required essay to the shop’s owners, Anne Winter and Kurt Von Schlemmer, about why he…
Monday, December 24A few options for Christmas eve:Chef Bryant Wigger is preparing a 5-courses Feast of the Seven Fishes-themed dinner tonight at Tavernonna (106 West 12th Street). For $65 a person (wine pairings are also available), try dishes including squid ink panna cotta, baccala montecato and seared scallops. Make your reservations via Open Table. Another option for Feast of the Seven…
Dear Dan: I’m a kinky single woman who keeps attracting the wrong men for me — specifically, submissive guys into face-sitting. I’m submissive myself, and face-sitting is not a turn-on for me. But the vast majority of men who hit on me have this fetish. I think it’s a size-related issue — a my-size-related issue. I’m a full-figured/curvy woman with…
In a continuation of one of the most dynamic rapper-director partnerships in Kansas City hip-hop, Aaron Alexander and Kendu The Stampede have teamed up again to present the video for Alexander’s latest single. “Journey Of The Spiritual Playboy” sees the KCK emcee contemplative as ever, stringing together catchy melodies as he ponders the value he finds in the material world….
Five years ago, a bar called The Shot Stop opened in Waldo. I went there to write about it. I assumed it would close in about a year, and to the untrained eye, it did. In 2015, it became Johnny Kaw’s. But the owner was the same: a guy named Brett Allred. And he appears to be doing something right. In…
After so many meals spent in industrial-chic dining rooms where waiters in butcher’s aprons deliver $18 small plates of tarragon-infused chicken gizzards — well, let’s just say that certain “new American” tropes have started to feel a little old. The Golden Ox, a recently resurrected steakhouse in the West Bottoms, offers a welcome balm for weary palates. The décor is…
I turn my recorder on, and The General Shane Thirteen — leader and guitarist of doom metal squadron They Watch Us From the Moon — almost immediately commences an attempt to indoctrinate me.“We were an Earth-bound rock ‘n’ roll band who were invited to play a world rock ‘n’ roll showcase, happening at the Giza Plateau, in front of the…
To see a movie with its score performed by a live orchestra is to see it entirely anew. Lucky for us, Kansas City Symphony is screening/scoring three of the most popular movies of all time over the next few months. “When you are performing live, the music is so much more present,” says Jason Seber, Kansas City Symphony’s associate conductor. “All…
Monday, December 17Culinary adventurers Elise Landry and Adam Wagner (formerly of Ça Va, the Antler Room and more) have spent the past couple of years traveling the world and learning about different cuisines. The couple have returned to Kansas City for a brief spell, and while they’re here they are hosting a multi-course, specialty pop-up dinner at Bluestem (900 Westport…
Dear Dan: Straight and married but not boring, and heading to my parents’ house for our first family Christmas since my asshole MAGA brother “stumbled over” the Tumblr blog where the wife and I posted about our sexual adventures. (Pics of MMF threesomes and cross-dressing/pegging sessions, plus some dirty “true enough” stories.) My brother has always been an angry screwup,…
At Waldo Thai Place, bartender Darrell Loo is starting from the baseline belief that most people don’t go to Asian restaurants expecting thoughtful drinks. Part of his mission is to change that perception, at least at Waldo Thai Place. He’s doing an excellent job so far. New to the menu is the memorable “Razberry Beret,” made with Buffalo Trace bourbon, muddled raspberry,…
It seems unlikely that the phrase You must try this broccoli salad has been uttered very many times in the history of the world — and particularly not in this beef-obsessed town. But here I am saying it: chef Joe West’s charred broccoli salad from the lunch menu at the Savoy must be tried. The dish is centered around a…
With its laid-back feel, porch-wrapped homes, and sweeping, blufftop views above the Kansas and Missouri rivers, Strawberry Hill is one of the KC metro’s true gems. We have long feared the possibility of the neighborhood losing its soul to gentrification. And there are recent signals of just that — a long-abandoned limestone Catholic Church at 5th Street and Ann Avenue is…
At Dereninger Camera Repair, there’s no internet, no computers — just a landline, and it doesn’t even have long-distance. Archie McGhee has been working here for over forty years, and he still comes in seven days a week, even when the East Brookside shop is closed to the public.”Wouldn’t want to be sittin’ around at home,” he says. “No good at that.”A…
Nine high school girls make up the soccer team that is The Wolves, at the Unicorn Theatre. During their weekly pregame warm-up sessions, we become acquainted with them amid a cacophony of their competing voices, opinions, and personalities.They’re a typical bunch of active, intelligent, hopeful and sometimes naïve girls-almost-women. Thrown together every Saturday morning, they banter, they quarrel, they compete,…
Don’t ask Katy Guillen why her band, Katy Guillen and the Girls, is playing its final shows this month. Guillen, the Girls’ singer-guitarist, along with bassist-vocalist Claire Adams and drummer Stephanie Williams, surprised many when they announced they were calling it quits. But Guillen isn’t interested in explaining why. “I’m not really answering that question,” Guillen says when I ask….
Nowhere does America’s dream of the “melting pot” seem more perfectly realized than the food court, where the sometimes competing, sometimes complementary aromas from a dozen fryers and flat-tops tangle in the air like a den of scent snakes. Of course, Parlor — the three-story, seven-restaurant, 18,000 square foot playground in the East Crossroads — is a food hall, not a…
It is completely reasonable to expect a Thom Yorke show to be mellow and mild mannered. His solo material — particularly Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, for which this tour is named — is meditative, to be judicious. Plenty nice, but not exactly party stuff. Last night’s show at the Midland, though, was rife with downbeats and a surprising amount of energy from…
Tuesday, December 11Both the downtown and Waldo locations of Betty Rae’s (412 Delaware Street and 7140 Wornall Road) are in the spirit of the holidays and donating all proceeds from sales on Tuesday to Cultivate KC, which manages urban farms throughout the city and works toward building a sustainable food future for Kansas City. There are few things better than…
Hooligan Holiday 2018, at the Madrid TheatreFeaturing Hepcat, 45 Adapters, and Boomtown United Saturday, December 8 After a nearly 21-year hiatus, California ska act Hepcat returned to the Kansas City area last night for a set loaded with energy and old-school hits. A few songs in, singer Greg Lee told a story about the band’s first jaunt through the Midwest…
Stepping into the Made in KC store on the Country Club Plaza is like entering a Maker Fairy Tale come true: locally branded T-shirts, downtown KC skyline art, and various Kansas City-themed trinkets as far as the eye can see. Earlier this fall, my gaze descended upon a small, pink, artisanal pot, perfect for an adorable hen-and-chick succulent to nestle inside….
